The easiest way to find the bar (it’s pretty tucked away) is to locate the 7/11 shop, and turn down the alleyway right to the end. This is the only gay bar in the ‘centre’ of Playa del Carmen.Ĭlub 69 can be found on the main street of 5 th Avenue, halfway between 4 th and 6 th Street.
There are two official gay bars in Playa del Carmen: Club 69 Whilst initially, it only seemed that there was one official gay bar, there is actually a little more on offer when it comes to gay nightlife. 6.3 Weather and the best time to visit Playa del Carmen.6.2 What is the Currency in Playa Del Carmen?.6.1 Getting from Cancun to Playa del Carmen.We hope you find it useful when you visit! Gay tourists are welcomed in all the bars, and you will find gay tourists scattered along all the beachfront where they can feel just as comfortable as their straight counterparts.īut after spending almost 2 weeks in Playa del Carmen, we found that scratching the surface a little bit deeper revealed a lot more on offer than just one club.Īnd so we decided to put together this complete guide to ‘Gay Playa del Carmen’. Upon arrival, we realised that the reason for this was that Playa del Carmen is such a friendly and welcoming place to all tourists, and as a result, everything from bars to beaches is integrated. Whilst researching ‘gay Playa del Carmen’ it seemed that there wasn’t really anything LGBT specific available, other than one bar/club (Club 69 – see below) that we kept reading about.
We loved it straight away, and knew we were going to have a great time.īut what about gay Playa del Carmen? With so much on offer for your general holidaymakers, did Playa del Carmen have anything to offer LGBT tourists? Stunning beaches, the crystal-clear water you would expect from the Caribbean, an abundance of restaurants, and what looked to be plenty of nightlife options stretching along the main street of 5 th Avenue. On first impressions, we were very impressed. (At the end of the night, he'll emphatically tell us he's straight, and that he'd never been to La Cueva before.We loved our first visit to Mexico when we visited Cancun back in 2015, and so were very excited to see how the second most popular beach resort of Playa del Carmen would live up to our expectations. We notice he's dancing only with us (except for once, with a queen) and he's reserved and respectful. I'm the only one in our group who dances to Mexican cumbias and rancheras, but we all dance, passing our guy around from partner to partner as the evening wears on. We ask him his name and he pauses before giving it (later, he'll have a hard time answering to it, signaling to us that he's either illegal or deeply closeted). As a result, we decide to spend as little money as possible.Ī young man with a '70s rock haircut, an open purple shirt and a gold chain comes to our table and asks us to dance. Our waitress, a short, stocky queen with poufy hair, barely makes eye contact with us as she takes our order. All the floor help here are transvestites-mostly queens Miss Ketty has deemed to be inadequate for the floor show-and they're not exactly thrilled with our presence. We take a table near the stage/dance floor and wait nearly 20 minutes for service.